Exposing Monsters: CASA Hosts Online Predator Awareness

On a dim and foggy Tuesday evening at the Humboldt Medical Center, CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), hosted a brutally honest seminar warning parents about the growing darkness of the online world, and how to protect children from falling prey to malicious online predators. Organized by Executive Director of CASA of Midwest Tennessee Treva Maitland, the event was led by author and former law enforcement investigator, Tony Kail.

The two-hour CASA volunteer training, while open for parents and law enforcement, was restricted for adults only due to the intensely graphic material discussed. While unpleasant, the exposure was necessary for parents and children’s protectors to fully grasp the evil which lurks in the internet’s unseen places.

“This evening is both horrible and important,” Mr. Kail said, warning the volunteers upfront. “I’ve covered cases that involve everything from ritualistic murders to animal sacrifices. But nothing is compared to how hard this is. It’s very mature (content), and it’s hard to possibly take it… but it’s necessary to understand the impact of this; not just in our region, but actually around the world right now.”

Kail, a cultural anthropologist as well as an investigator, is no stranger to occult and satanic group activity. Author of “A Secret History of Memphis Hoo-Doo”, “Narco-cults”, and several others, Kail has proven that online cult groups are neither conspiracy nor fiction. They are very real and they’re always hunting. While the stereotype of online predators may picture a dark hooded master hacker wearing fingerless gloves and shades, the more accurate depiction is likely to be a lonely, chronically-online twenty-three-year-old incel who has used their own pain as an excuse to hurt others, sometimes to a lethal degree.

But that doesn’t make theirmotive or capabilities any less alarming.

FACING MONSTERS – CASA volunteers and others learn about some of the vilest, most disgusting dangers facing children in today’s online world. Photo by Ethan Orwig.

The Dangers of 764

Mr. Kail spent the seminar sharing credible evidence to expose a specific predator cult called “764.” Their target? Vulnerable children.

Recently uncovered by the FBI in the Chicago area, the extensive group “764” is a satanic-based cult of child predators who centralize pedophilia, torture, gore, and death as their god. The FBI has spent the last six months uprooting 764’s operations and has arrested manyof its cult leaders across the world. Cults like 764 are known as “NVE’s” or Nihilistic Violent Extremist networks; and they subscribe to an inherently self-centered nihilistic ideology. Nihilists believe that life is meaningless, and their evil actions have no moral weight or value, making their lack of conscience immediately dangerous.

According to Kail’s provided evidence, 764’s manifesto is to accelerate the end of the world by afflicting as much wickedness as possible. How? By inflicting pain and suffering by targeting and manipulating the victims – vulnerable children. But how do children get roped into such abhorrent evil?

These invisible predators’ operations begin through community video games like Roblox, public Minecraft servers, Fortnite, VR Chat, and other attractive community games with an underage audience. Some of these are traps. Examples include malicious VR chat rooms disguised as Hello Kitty themed communities, or hunting grounds disguised as anime themed Discord servers. These games and apps allow open microphones, so strangers can talk to one another while playing- a perfect gateway for predators to begin manufacturing a false friendship with a victim. Once trust is built (or more accurately, groomed), the children are bribed with in-game gift cards or cash, and are lured to a private chat room/server where predators coerce them into sharing personal information, explicit pictures, or anything incriminating enough to script to a full throttle blackmail situation.

But unlike blackmailing for money, these predators blackmail for the victim’s pain. Children’s suffering is for their own satisfaction. In exchange for not being doxxed (online public humiliation), they are told to follow an endless set of diabolical demands. It starts small. They may be told to drink from the toilet bowl or to cut their stalker’s names in their skin. Then it grows. Victims are forced to livestream sexual self-exposure, self-harm, or harming/killing family pets. These manipulative spiders weave the illusion that there’s no other choice but to obey. Some cases go even as far as ordering the victim’s own suicide. Others involve kidnapping where some are taken to Redrooms: rooms designed to livestream the rape, torture, and execution of the victim in front of hundreds of depraved online viewers. The list is endless, and so are the innumerable cases.

The internet is an iceberg. And the dark web is at the bottom. It’s the murky depth where the scum of mankind gathers to buy, sell, and celebrate wickedness. It’s where people buy Redroom footage, snuff films (videos of actual deaths), and other indescribable evils the way regular people buy DVDs. They treat torture as a business practice. They trade child porn the way people trade baseball cards. It is the hub where these demonically inspired cults fester and thrive while not just tolerating evil, but celebrating it, worshipping it, and declaring violence and death as their god.

Every day, more of these groups are being exposed by the FBI and other investigative agencies.

HORRIBLE AND IMPORTANT – Former investigator Tony Kail, the speaker at last week’s Online Predator Awareness seminar, speaks on 764, a group of nihilistic predators that exist only to ruin lives. Photo by Ethan Orwig.

Fighting the Monsters

Mr. Kail didn’t conclude the sobering presentation by leaving CASA volunteers and parents in the dark. He taught practical ways to guard against these potential online threats. The big three points are summed up by:

1. Restricting Access: the best way to protect your children is simply cutting off any way children may indirectly expose their information to strangers online. This includes social media, chat rooms, and certain online communities like Discord, Snapchat, and Telegram.
2. Video games: Roblox and Minecraft, while by themselves were meant to be good and fun things, are not safe unless their public settings have been turned to private. All these cases happen when other strangers are playing, interacting with victims in a public online place. It’s like strangers sitting on a nearby park bench watching kids play tag on the playground. Ensure the servers your children play on are locked to a private server where only friends and family they know can join.
3. Monitor activity: If you allow your children to access the internet, monitor it like hawk. Not because you don’t trust your child, but because you shouldn’t trust everything what may be watching from behind the screen.

If there is any good to come from the sobering CASA presentation, it’s this: These cases, as horrific as they are, can bring hope. How?

Awareness exposes darkness. It’s like shining a torch inside a cave to find hungry wolves waiting inside. You wouldn’t have known the wolves were in there if you didn’t shine the light inside to see for yourself. You can’t fight evil if you’re unaware of it, even if learning about its existence

makes your stomach churn.

As Ephesians 5: 11-14 says,

“¹¹Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. ¹²For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. ¹³But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, ¹⁴f

or anything that becomes visible is light.”

Tony Kail said it best following the seminar.

“You may go the rest of your life never seeing this. That’s my prayer for you,” Kail said. “But the sad reality is that it’s out there. We do better by equippingourselves, even if that means looking at the monsters in the face, before we have to go out and fight the monsters.”